Description: This article discusses the risks of retirement and how those risks impact attaining a secure retirement in a defined contribution world.

Description: Redefining retirement: shifting demographics, evolving job profiles, unpredictable economic markets and rising health care costs.

Description: Column describes results of retirement needs survey and summarizes upcoming or new educational opportunities and highlights actuaries in the news.

Description: This article summarizes a roundtable discussion moderated by Anna Rappaport. The purpose of the roundtable was to discuss a model of personal investing known as the Life–Cycle Model of Investing and Saving. This model is concerned with how individuals can find ways to smooth their consumption so that they have a roughly similar standard of living across different periods of time.

Description: Discusses some basic issues for women to consider in planning for the possibility of being alone.

Description: This is a review of 'Restructuring Retirement Risks,' a collection of papers that examines retirement risks, edited by David Blitzstein, Olivia Mitchell, and Stephen Utkus. The papers, which are a must–read for serious students of retirement systems and a good introduction for those not as familiar with the issues, explore the stresses being placed on those systems and ever–increasing uncertainty as Baby Boomers begin to move into retirement.

Description: Feature article describing the results of an SOA sponsored retirement survey. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2010 Vol 7 Issue 2